Scope of application of gamma knife therapy

Gamma knife is divided into head gamma knife and body gamma knife. Head gamma knife includes static gamma knife and rotary gamma knife. Static gamma knife is to install multiple cobalt sources in a spherical helmet and focus on a certain point of the skull. Rotary gamma knife is improved on the basis of static gamma knife and has many advantages. This is a patent of China.

Head gamma knife can cure trigeminal neuralgia (trigeminal neuralgia), glioma, meningioma, acoustic neuroma, pituitary adenoma, craniopharyngioma and so on.

Body gamma knife is mainly used to treat all kinds of tumors in the whole body.

1 and intracranial benign tumors such as acoustic neuroma, pituitary adenoma and meningioma below 30 mm;

2. Small and deep intracranial arteriovenous malformation;

3. Some operations cannot remove clean benign and malignant tumors;

4. Small and well-defined intracranial metastatic carcinoma;

5, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, mental illness and other functional diseases.

Body gamma knife is suitable for the treatment of lung cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, adrenal tumor, renal cancer, mediastinal tumor, retroperitoneal tumor and pelvic tumor. Body gamma knife can be used alone for radical treatment of small tumors, and can also be used in combination with various radiotherapy techniques. Body gamma knife has no operation, no anesthesia, no trauma, light side effects and no need of hospitalization. It is especially suitable for elderly patients who can't tolerate surgery or patients who refuse surgery because of fear.